Call for Submissions: The Way Within

Call for Submissions: The Way Within

Show Date: Friday, May 2, 7 – 10pm
Show will be installed until June 22, 2025
Location: The Back Alley Gallery, Hamilton, ON
Accepting submissions until April 20, 2025

We invite artists of all backgrounds and disciplines to submit work for The Way Within, an exhibition celebrating the intersections of community, walking, and the transformative power of nature on the journey to finding joy. This special show will be held in conjunction with the launch of a new book entitled, Restoring Joy by Colleen O’Toole, MSc , OT, Reg, (Ont). Colleen explores these themes through the experience of 40 days on the Camino de Santiago, walking herself home.

Submissions can include 1-3 pieces of completed work.

Art in all mediums is welcome, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media/collage, and textile art. We are looking for pieces that reflect personal journeys, inner landscape, resilience and the ways we connect with ourselves and each other. Artists working in sculpture must provide and deliver their own display units (ie.plinth, cover, etc) for public viewing in an unsupervised outdoor space.

All art sales are subject to 30% commission fees to the gallery.

How to Submit:

Online submissions only. Non-Refundable Application Fee of $25 must be received upon submission.

Please fill out the submission form online.

Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025

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